[extropy-chat] Serenity: "...make people better."

[Dirk Bruere]

On 10/13/05, Russell Wallace <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/13/05, Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> >
> > I have noticed, in conversations with luddish people, that the true
> > concern is not actually over "better", but over "make".
>
>
> Absolutely.
>
> If transhumanists came across as saying "we want technology to improve
> ourselves, if other people want to use it too that's fine with us, it's a
> matter of individual choice", most people's reaction wouldn't be worse than
> "eh, those guys are weird".
>
> The reason people like Fukuyama regard transhumanism as something to be
> feared and hated is that they (not without reason) perceive transhumanists
> as saying "we want technology to improve ourselves, those who join us will
> be saved, all others will be forcibly converted or exterminated like the
> inferior creatures you are!"
>
> The reason people like Fukuyama regard transhumanism as something to be
feared and hated is that they (not without reason) perceive transhumanists
as saying "we want technology to improve ourselves, those who join us will
be immortal geniuses, all others will be unemployable retards!"

Dirk
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